Daily Mail
October 24, 2014
A carer admitted hitting a vulnerable teenager with learning difficulties on the head after he was caught on a secret camera the boy’s parents had put up in his room.
Zak Rowlands, 19, is the size of a 12-year-old and suffers from autism and severe learning difficulties. He was born with a chromosome disorder.
His parents decided to install a secret camera in the care home in Lancashire where he was living after they noticed their son was flinching every time he was approached.
Stanley Nkenko, 35, admitted assaulting the teenager after he was caught on camera hitting him in his room at Oxen Barn specialist care home in Leyland in Lancashire.
Mr Rowlands’ parents had noticed that Zak had started flinching when he returned home to spend time with his family.
They decided to install the camera secretly in his room at the care home.
When Zak’s father Tom Rowlands viewed the footage it showed Nkenko slapping him twice across the back of his head as he put him to bed on May 21.